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This story was originally published by the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Exploring new stretches of the galaxy brought NASA scientist William Borucki back to Earth.
Borucki, 76, retired in July as the principal investigator of NASA’s Kepler Mission, an unmanned spacecraft that has been surveying a portion of the Milky Way for habitable planets since March 2009. The mission has discovered more than 1,000 confirmed planets and inspired many to think about what, if any, life is out there.
But Borucki said it also made him reconsider life on Earth—and its fate in light of climate change.
“The Earth is a very special place,” Borucki said in an interview with the Huffington Post earlier this month. “Unless we have the wisdom and technology to protect our biosphere, it could become like many other dead worlds.”
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